Joe Giella

Joe Giella (* June 27, 1928 in Manhattan, New York City ) is an American comic book artist.

Life

Giella attended Manhattan 's School of Industrial Art, which he left prematurely three months before graduating. At 17, he began working as a freelance pencil and technical pen for the publisher Hillman Periodicals. There he first designed the humorous series Captain Codfish. At the same time he took classes at the Art Students' League " and courses for commercial art at Hunter College.

In the later 1940s Giella worked as a freelance artist for publishers Fawecett comics and from 1946 Timley Comics, the predecessor of Marvel Comics. While the series Captain Marvel inkte for Fawcett, he assisted during his time with the artist Syd Shores Timely in shaping the series Captain America Comics, for which he corrected refined and occasional errors in the foreground, the background drawings drawings. Similar tasks he did in the episode for the series Human Torch, Sub Mariner and various Humoristika until he eventually specialized to the tasks of a technical pen.

In the late 1940s Giella finally changed at the insistence of his colleague and friend Frank Giacoia to the competing Timely publisher DC Comics. At DC Giella inked in the late 1940s superhero series like The Flash, Green Lantern and Black Canary.

In the early 1950s he inkte mainly various - mostly drawn by Alex Toth and Gene Colan - Western series such as Sierra or Hopalong Cassidy Smith, while in the later '50s science fiction themes such as Adam Strange in the center of his work were. He also occasionally inkte books of this series Batman, which was drawn at this time by artists such as Sheldon Moldoff and Carmine Infantino.

In the 1960s, Giella worked under the direction of Julius Schwartz along with artist Gil Kane at the neugestarteten, content and appearance of newly defined, series Green Lantern, because Giellas dynamic ink drawings was not least to one of the most popular cartoon series of the 1960s.

In the 1970s and 1980s Giella worked on newspaper comic strips such as Flash Gordon ( 1970), The Phantom, he also devoted himself increasingly commercial work as a commercial artist for agencies like McCann Erickson and Saatchi & Saatchi. In the 1990s he teamed up once again produced by his work on the newspaper comic strip Mary Worth.

• Man
• Cartoonist
• Americans
• Born in 1928